Visa Bulletin / History / May 2021
May 2021 Visa Bulletin: what changed
Auto-summary Source: U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin
Compared with the April 2021 bulletin, 7 employment-based Final Action Dates changed: 7 moved forward and 0 moved back.
Biggest moves forward: EB-3 India (+5 months); EB-3 Other Workers India (+5 months); EB-2 India (+3 months); EB-2 China (+3 months).
For the largest backlog, India: EB-2 India 01 Aug 2010, EB-3 India 01 Feb 2011.
Written automatically from the bulletin dates below; nothing here is a prediction. Not legal advice. Months marked Secondary come from a dataset scraped from the official bulletins and are being checked; the official bulletin always wins.
Released in April 2021. Official bulletin page.
Final Action Dates
| Category | India | China | Rest of world | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 | Current | Current | — | Current | Current |
| EB-2 | 01 Aug 2010▲ 3 months | 01 Dec 2016▲ 3 months | — | Current | Current |
| EB-3 | 01 Feb 2011▲ 5 months | 15 May 2018▲ 2 months | — | Current | Current |
| EB-3 Other Workers | 01 Feb 2011▲ 5 months | 01 Aug 2009▲ 2 months | — | Current | Current |
| EB-4 | Current | Current | — | 15 Mar 2019▲ 42 days | Current |
| EB-5 unreserved | — | — | — | — | — |
▲ ▼ movement since the Apr 2021 bulletin. Click a date for that category's full history.
Dates for Filing
| Category | India | China | Rest of world | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 | Current | Current | — | Current | Current |
| EB-2 | 15 May 2011 | 01 Jul 2017▲ 6 months | — | Current | Current |
| EB-3 | 01 Jan 2014 | 01 Sep 2018▲ 31 days | — | Current | Current |
| EB-3 Other Workers | 01 Jan 2014 | 01 Nov 2009▲ 2 months | — | Current | Current |
| EB-4 | Current | Current | — | Current | Current |
| EB-5 unreserved | — | — | — | — | — |
▲ ▼ movement since the Apr 2021 bulletin. Click a date for that category's full history.